Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Date: 1917-08
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0272.0029

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed: [adhered with paste] CANADIAN OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE / WESTERN FRONT, / 0.1769. Advance to Hill 70. Boche officers leading prisoners. / captured by Canadians to the cage. They were / very pleased to become prisoners. There were about / 250 in the batch.; stamped: [illeg.]; stamped: OFFICIAL PRESS BUREAU / [lion and unicorn emblem] / PASSED FOR TRANSMISSION AB[R]OA[D] / [illeg.]; stamped: [outline] PUBL / SEP 30 1917; stamped: STOCK PURCHASED / SEP 29 1917 / NEW YORK TIMES; handwritten: 3-00; handwritten: 2 [circled and struck through]; handwritten: A Pa; stamped: ACKNOWLEDGE: / CANADIAN WAR RE[CORDS.] / This photograph is issued for CANADIAN WAR RECORDS OFFICE / by CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY.; handwritten: 1 [circled]; printed: [newsprint adhered with paste] LARGE GROUP OF GERMAN PRISONERS, [circled] CAPTURED BY THE CANADI- / ANS IN THE ADVANCE ON HILL 70, MARCHING TO THE REAR, LED / BY CAPTIVE GERMAN / OFFICERS. / (American / Press Assn.); handwritten: 142-LB [boxed and struck through]; handwritten: 4864-L5 [boxed]; handwritten: 14 9/16 x 6 7/8; handwritten: [obscured] [circled]

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection